Bio
Ashanti Wandia is a Kenyan model best known as one of the "suitcase models" on the television game show Deal Or No Deal Africa, which aired on M-Net in March/April 2007.
Wandia (full name Rachel Wandia Mwangi) was born and raised on a Kenyan coffee plantation. She was the sixth out of nine children.
Her mother is a home executive and her father a businessman.
Wandia began her career in Kenya, taking any work that she could get from modeling to product launches such as the launch of for Kenya Airways Premier World and the launch of Nokia and Samsung.
She had a minor role in the 2004 film Masai: The Rain Warriors, produced by the French film producer and director Pascal Plisson. The movie was a success in France and Japan.
She was chosen as one of the 26 suitcase models for M-Net's Deal Or No Deal Africa game show, filming 26 episodes over three weeks in February 2007.
The show ran from March to April of that year.
As of March 2007, Wandia is co-authoring a play that she will star in.